kernel messages: fork

Gustavo A. Lozano (glozano@olafo.inter.net.co)
Sat, 23 Nov 1996 13:47:07 -0500 (EST)


I'm running kernel 2.0.25 kernel in the next configuration:

Pentium Processor 100Mhz
32Mg Ram
2 SCSI Disks.

My swap partition is /dev/sda1 ; Recently I had too many errors when
trying to execute any command ;

Syslog says :
Nov 23 10:40:09 olafo kernel: swap_duplicate: trying to duplicate unused
page
Nov 23 10:40:22 olafo last message repeated 55 times
Nov 23 10:43:23 olafo inetd[64]: fork: Try again
Nov 23 10:43:31 olafo last message repeated 4 times
Nov 23 10:43:31 olafo sendmail[30809]: KAA30809: SYSERR(root): dowork:
cannot f$
Nov 23 10:43:36 olafo inetd[64]: fork: Try again
Nov 23 10:43:41 olafo sendmail[30005]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): SMTP-MAIL:
cannot$
Nov 23 10:43:45 olafo sendmail[20598]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon:
cannot fo$
Nov 23 10:44:26 olafo inetd[64]: fork: Try again
Nov 23 10:44:33 olafo sendmail[20598]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon:
cannot fo$
Nov 23 10:44:48 olafo inetd[64]: fork: Try again
Nov 23 10:45:05 olafo last message repeated 2 times

Linus can u explain me please what means "fork" ?

Gustavo

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